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I wish I had my money and time back

Revisado: 12-10-22

I don't expect cozy mysteries to be completely believable but this one strays too far from reality. The zombie scene was particularly ludicrous. Other departures from believability: No quarantine area would ever allow Patricia to come and go freely without protective gear. Doctors treating desperately sick patients would never stop what they're doing to give a passenger updates whenever she wanted them. The entire plot line was pretty ridiculous. Kudos to the narrator for delivering a professional performance of such slapstick material. I enjoyed the first 2 books in this series but they seem to be going downhill.

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Having a hard time getting past book #6

Revisado: 06-30-22

I thought that getting 14 books for 1 credit was a deal, but honestly, I regret spending a credit on this series. I read a lot of cozy mysteries and know that, as cozy readers, we often have to suspend logic and accept characters doing/saying things that no rational person would ever do. This series is so much less believable than most that I've read, and the books seem to be getting more ludicrous as the series progresses. In book 6, Megan is chosen to receive a first-class all-expense paid trip to Paris for a baking conference. Suddenly, handsome French men are fawning over her beauty. Famous bakery owners are applauding her knowledge. Megan has a 5-minute conversation with the presenter who is later murdered, and then somehow the victim's brother knows all about Megan because of his sister's regard for her. She mentions she owns a bakery and he immediately decides her bakery would be the right way for his highly successful corporation to start investing in an American company. The police accuse Megan of being a threat to national security (because she left her passport in her hotel room). The solution to the mystery just falls in Megan's lap, without her investigating. The snake scene is beyond ridiculous. The story line isn't remotely credible. I don't think I'll be able to finish this series...so disappointing.

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Great performance!

Revisado: 04-28-22

This narrator is such an improvement! Her performance and natural-sounding accent let me fully enjoy the story.

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Story is bad; narration is worse

Revisado: 04-27-22

It's rare that I leave a bad review and even more rare that I don't finish a book that I've purchased, but this book is so bad that I'm stopping in the middle. The narration is painful to listen to...terrible attempt at a Southern accent, strange choices of inflection and emphasis, and many production quality issues. The story itself is all over the place, leaving me confused about how/whether one sentence or scene relates to the next. There are numerous continuity problems, where characters' thoughts or dialog contradict earlier parts of the story. The romantic dialog is so bad it makes me cringe. I like this author's other series and thought the first books in this series were all right, but I won't be buying any more for fear they'll be as bad as this one.

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What an improvement!

Revisado: 05-24-20

Much better than the last few books....good story, dialog...the old Aggie is back! Great narration.

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All talk, no action

Revisado: 05-12-17

I loved the earlier books in this series, but this one was a huge disappointment. It was slow, very repetitive, and the entire story is based on people sitting in a room talking about something that happened 20 years earlier. It was painful to get through.

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